Take action on climate in Colorado!

Stop by here anytime for a list of upcoming key action opportunities, including; tabling, public comment sessions, testifying at hearings, and growing the climate movement. One of the most important things you can do is to make your voice heard. Please speak up for strong climate leadership!

*Please visit our online calendar for details on all of our events this month, including monthly committee meetings, additional events hosted by 350 Colorado, and upcoming trainings. 

–> In-Person Events:

• Help grow the number of interconnected activists – table with us! No experience necessary, we have materials and things to help people feel confident and prepared in the role. Just email Chelsea at chelsea@350colorado.org to grab a shift!
  • Denver area opportunities: 
    • Tuesday, April 2nd – 5:30-7:30pm – Coronado Elementary School “Family Science Night”
    • Wednesday, April 23rd – 10am-12pm or 12pm-2pm – MSU Campus “Earth Week Fair”
    • Friday, April 25th – 11:30am-1:30pm – CU Anschutz Campus “Earth Day Celebration”
    • Wednesday, May 7th – 2pm-4:30pm or 4:30pm-7pm – McNichols Civic Center Building “Women Powering Change” event
  • Boulder area opportunities:
    • Friday, April 11th – 5-7:30pm – Naropa University Campus “50 Year Anniversary Celebration”

–> Upcoming Hearings & Public Comment Opportunities: 

• Tell Governor Polis to veto defining nuclear as “clean” energy! HB25-1040, a bill to define nuclear as “clean,” taking time, money, and attention away from truly clean energy, will be heading soon to the Governor’s desk.
  • Send this quick and easy one-click letter to urge him to veto the bill. You can personalize the letter or send as-is. 
• There is still time to contact your Representative and tell them to vote YES on HB25-1277: the Fossil Fuel Warning Label bill. People have the right to know the impacts of the fuels they use! Progress on pollution and climate progress is being threatened by the federal government, including plans to remove greenhouse gases from the list of air pollutants EPA regulates. Colorado owes it to our people to stand firm behind the truth about pollution and climate change.
  • One-click letter here. For more information or to write your own letter, see this toolkit
• Support HB25-1096: Automated Permits for Clean Energy Technology. Makes getting a permit for a home to install solar panels faster and easier. Requires cities, counties, and the state to make available an automated online software platform for approving residential solar and battery permits. 
  • Toolkit with more information

–> Ongoing Hybrid Opportunities:

1. Support the People Over Polluters Fundraising Campaign!

Donate now to help 350CO / Safe & Healthy Colorado launch legal challenges and a communications campaign to fight the disinformation and stop the expansion of oil and gas fracking in CO! Learn more & donate here.

1. Become a Leadership Council member on your local team!

The Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Roaring Fork, and Northern Colorado teams are looking for a handful of members to join their Leadership Councils. LCs are the people that work closely with other organizers in their area, and the Team Coordinator, to win local campaigns, grow the climate movement, and create more resilient, empowered communities. Apply here today! 

• No specific experience needed, no minimum age required – we’ll provide a short onboarding training and support in getting started!
• General tasks include light event planning, campaign management, strategic planning, and some fundraising
• ~5 hours a month preferred 

Questions? Email Chelsea at chelsea@350colorado.org

1. Become a ZIP Leader (“Zoning Interpersonal Power”) for your community.

As a ZIP Leader, you’ll be a part of Colorado’s largest grassroots movement dedicated to solving the climate crisis! The overall objective is not for you to solve the climate crisis alone, but for you to build & empower a community working toward climate solutions!

Anticipated tasks involved: 

• Communicate actions, events, and opportunities relevant to the zip code to other activists in the area
• Organize and/or participate in events and actions within the zip code to connect activists
• Share events, actions, or needs in the zip code to 350CO teammates as needed
• Cultivate relationships with activists, community leaders representatives, and policymakers in the zip code
• Recruitment of activists within the zip code

For more information, check out the position description. If you’re ready to get started, fill out the ZIP Leader Interest Form and we’ll be in contact soon!

Questions? Email Chelsea at chelsea@350colorado.org

–> Online Actions:

1. Join us for an Exclusive Webinar! People Over Polluters Communications Strategy Kickoff 

On Thursday, April 3rd from 6-7pm learn all about our plan to push back against industry misinformation by educating and activating Coloradans—and how your support makes this work possible. RSVP here to receive the link! 

1. Send a message to your legislators and Governor Polis –  It’s Time to Rein in New Oil & Gas Fracking Permits!

During this 2025 Legislative Session, let’s keep calling on our state leaders for meaningful action, because Colorado is not on track to meet our climate, air quality or environmental justice goals. We need a rapid, just transition off fossil fuels to a clean energy future and to end permitting for new oil and gas wells, because drilling and fracking are causing major harm to our health, climate, air, and water resources.

Asking them to sign this open letter supporting a phase out of permitting for oil and gas wells by 2030 and a just transition to a clean renewable energy future and to speak out against more fracking permits in our local communities will help shift the status quo!

–> Send message to legislators and Governor Polis!

1. Tell the ECMC: Fully Investigate, Disclose, and Enforce Against Oil & Gas Data Falsification

In July 2024, the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (“ECMC”) received information regarding an issue of data falsification related to oil and gas clean up reports. Eventually, it was revealed that two environmental consultant firms had submitted falsified data regarding approximately 350 oil and gas locations in Weld County on behalf of Colorado’s three largest oil and gas extractors: Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Civitas Resources Inc., and Occidental Petroleum.

The ECMC must respond swiftly and strongly in order to protect impacted Coloradans and our environment, and to send a clear message that data falsification is not tolerated in Colorado. We need your voices to hold them accountable. Take 1 minute to send the one click letter below to the members of the ECMC! 

–> Send one click letter to ECMC

Questions? Email Bobbie at bobbie@350colorado.org

1. Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) or OpEd about the fact that many oil and gas wells do not generate enough money to plug their wells.

From the Colorado Sun: “Profitable oil and gas production in Colorado is increasingly concentrated in a few basins leaving the rest of the operations with few resources  and posing risk to getting all 47,000 of the state’s active wells plugged and remediated, according to a report from Carbon Tracker.

At least 27,000 wells — more than half the state tally — don’t generate enough cash to pay for their eventual plugging and site remediation, the report by the nonprofit think tank focused on climate and finance.”

This leaves taxpayers holding the bag for oil and gas well cleanup. Not to mention the pollution and habitat destruction created by these wells!

Everything you need: 

• Your step-by-step guide on writing LTEs and OpEd are here.
• More info – Read an article about this here

More online actions to take

1. The Safe & Healthy Colorado coalition has introduced a Statewide Ballot Initiative to Phase Out All New Fracking Permits by 2030!  Complete your Pledge to Sign the ballot initiative here and check out 18 Ways You Can Help Bring the Fracking Phase Out to voters!
2. Sign the petition to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack demanding that he cancel the Uinta Basin Railway.
3. Watch and share this video on social media to learn how oil and gas fracking is fueling the flames for more intense wildfires in Colorado
4. Support Nuclear-Free Pueblo from anywhere!
5. Sign this petition by GreenLatinos asking Weld County to stop line 1 and put community health and safety over a pipeline expansion project
6. We are excited to announce a new toolkit completed in partnership with Boulder County, titled From Dollars to Decarbonization: A Local Government Blueprint for Fossil Free Finance. This toolkit is a resource for local governments to decarbonize their finances in four key areas: Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and Fossil Fuel Divestment. We’re looking for constituents to reach out to their city and county governments to share this toolkit, and to support their governments in taking the steps outlined in this toolkit. We’re happy to give presentations and offer consultation to governments that are interested in taking these steps!
7.  Sign the Fossil Free CU Petition Here and the Divest CSU Petition here to support local university divestment work! New to divestment & defunding climate disaster? Learn more about how critical divestment work is in the context of the climate crisis.